Cigar and cigarette dispensing device



Nov. 22, 1927-. 1

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Patented Nov. 22, 1927.

UNITED STA EUGENE BLACK, on New YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR AND CIGARETTE DISPENSING DEVICE.

Application filed September 16, 1926. Serial No; 135,728.

This invention relates to cigar and cigarette dispensing devices and themain obect thereof is to provide a device of this nature of substantialconstruction and ineX- pensive in price.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device oft-his naturewith a dispensing drawer or slide having grooves therein that willautomatically be refilled by the action of gravity.

A further object of the invention is to provide means within a device ofthis 'nature that will insure positive action, and prevent the slidefrom sticking when be- A. still further object of the invention is toprovide means whereby the device may readily be refilled without havingto dismount same.

Other objects and novel features of construction will become moreapparent as the description proceeds.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification I Figure 1 is aview in perspective of such a device constructed according to myinvention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section taken approximately through thecenter of the device and Figure 3 is a section view taken on line 33,Figure 2.

Referring to the drawings in detail in which like numerals refer to thesame parts throughout the several views, 5 indicates a boX like bodyportion made of wood or metal and provided with a front wall 6, a rearwall 7, side walls 8 and 9 and a base 10. Upon the base 10 and operatingbetween the side walls 8 and 9 and through an opening 11 in the frontwall 6 there is slidingly mounted a cigarette dispensing slide member 12provided with grooves 13 cut laterally across its top surface and nearthe frontend thereof. WVhile I have shown a plurality of such grooves 13only a single one may be used. A wall 14 forming an inclined base issuitably secured inside the body member 5 and together with the frontwall 5 and the sidewalls 8 and 9 form a chamber 5 in which cigars orcigarettes may be stored.

The chamber 5? may be partially closed at the top thereof by a wall 15resting upon and secured to ledges 16 provided in the side walls 8 and 9and the rear Wall '7. The

said wall lo has secured thereto a block 17 upon which a box of matchesmay be suitably mounted. The top may be fully closed by an ashreceptacle 18 removably supported upon the ledgesl16 in the front wall 6Y and'the side walls 7 and 8. This ash receptacle acts as a lid or coverthat may be removed when it is desired to fill the device with cigars orcigarettes.

It will be readily understood that when r the device is used fordispensing cigarettes, some of the tobacco will fall out, due to itsbecoming dry and on account of the rolling of the cigarettes and tendsto accumulate in the groove 13 thus raising the cigarette above the topsurface ofthe slide 12-which will cause same to stick in the slideopening 11 and so prevent or hinder the withdrawal of the slide. Toovercome this tendency I provide a series of holes or openings 20 ineach of the grooves 13 through which such tobacco as may accumulate mayfall through and out when the slide is fully drawn forward. Likewisesome of the loose tobacco may get underneath the edge of the wall 14 asat 21 and fall on to the base 10 when the slide is drawn forwardly. Ifallowed to accumulate, this tobacco will prevent the ready sliding ofthe member 12. To overcome this, I provide holes or openings 22 at therear of the base 12 normally covered by 'a plate 23 maintained in placethereon V by a screw 24. By loosening the screw 24 and turning the plate23 half way around, any tobacco that may have accumulated. will fall outthrough said openings22. By referring to Fig. 2 of the drawings, it willbe seen that the top surface of each of the convex portions 25 betweenthe grooves 13 is slightly below the top surface of the slide 12. Thisarrangement will prevent the cigarette lying on top of the said surfacefrom being caught between the cigarette in the groove and the convexportion 25 when the slide is being drawn out and thus prevent thesticking of the slide on this account. The forward movement of the slideis limited by pins or projections 26 in the base and a shoulder 27 inthe wall 14.

The operation of the device is as follows: After the chamber 5* isfilled with cigarettes, the slide 12 is drawn out with one Upon thegrooves will again be filled by gravity. It will be understood that asthe number of cigarettes are gradually diminished so that there willonly be one layer of them in the chamber, these will roll down theinclined base 14 and fill up all of the grooves 13 when the slide isreturned, until there are less than ten such cigarettes in the chamber,when only one or two such cigarettes will roll into the grooves. Thiswill indicate that the supply has to be replenished.

From the above it will be seen that I have provided a cigar or cigarettedispensing device easy to operate, positive in action and one that canbe refilled without disassembling same. It will also indicate prior tothe complete exhaustion of its contents that such refilling has to takeplace.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. In a cigarettedispensing device, comprising a body provided with abase having openings therein, a cigarette holding chamber within thebody, a slide operably mounted on the base below the chamber, a groovecut laterally across the top surface of the slide, adapted to begravitationally filled with a cigarette, an inclined wall cooperatingwith the slide to deposit a cigarette in the groove, and aplateremovably secured to the base below the opei'iings therein topermit any accumulation of tobacco in the said openings to drop out whenthe said plate is removed.

2. In a cigarette dispensing device, con1- prising a body provided witha base having openings therein, front, rear and side walls,

a chamber within the body, a ledge on each Y of the walls, an inclinedwall within the body, a slide operably mounted on the base below theinclined wall in cooperative relation therewith, grooves cut laterallyacross the top surface of the slide adapted to be gravitationally filledwith cigarettes in the chamber and on the inclined wall, a coverremovably supported on the ledges of the walls, and a plate removablysecured to the base below the openings therein to permit anyaccumulation of tobacco within the said openings to drop out when theplate is removed.

EUGENE BLACK. 7

